The Robert Frost Reader

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805070217
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robert Frost Reader written by Robert Frost and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. This is a collection of rich cornucopia of Frost's speeches, interviews, correspondence, one-act plays, and other prose.

Author : Judith Oster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820316215
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Robert Frost written by Judith Oster and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every poem, Robert Frost declared, "is an epitome of the great predicament, a figure of the will braving alien entanglements". This study considers what Frost meant by those entanglements, how he braved them in his poetry, and how he invited his readers to do the same. In the process it contributes significantly to a new critical awareness of Frost as a complex artist who anticipated postmodernism--a poet who invoked literary traditions and conventions frequently to set himself in tension with them. Using the insights of reader-response theory, Judith Oster explains how Frost appeals to readers with his apparent accessibility and then, because of the openness of his poetry's possibilities, engages them in the process of constructing meaning. Frost's poems, she demonstrates, teach the reader how they should be read; at the same time, they resist closure and definitive reading. The reader's acts of encountering and constructing the poems parallel Frost's own encounters and acts of construction. Commenting at length on a number of individual poems, Oster ranges in her discussion from the ways in which the poet dramatizes the inadequacy of the self alone to the manner in which he "reads" the Book of Genesis or the writing of Emerson. Oster illuminates, finally, the central conflict in Frost: his need to be read well against his fear of being read; his need to share his creation against his fear of its appropriation by others.

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466877804
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Frost written by Jay Parini and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful biography of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche, showing how he dealt with adversity, family tragedy, and depression. By taking the reader into the poetry itself, which he reads closely and brilliantly, Parini offers an insightful road map to Frost's remarkable world.

Author : Tyler Hoffman
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651505
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry written by Tyler Hoffman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and persuasive new reading of Frost as a poet deeply engaged with both the literary and public politics of his day.

Author : Deirdre J. Fagan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108540
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to Robert Frost written by Deirdre J. Fagan and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his favorite themes of New England and nature, Robert Frost may well be the most famous American poet of the 20th century. This is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of this great American poet. It combines critical analysis with information on Frost's life, providing a one-stop resource for students.

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684129249
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost written by Robert Frost and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early works of beloved poet Robert Frost, collected in one volume. The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the early twentieth century, as well as for its examination of social and philosophical issues. Through the use of American idiom and free verse, Frost produced many enduring poems that remain popular with modern readers. A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost contains all the poems from his first four published collections: A Boy’s Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923), including classics such as “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Robert Frost and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lesley Lee Francis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492756
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Frost written by Lesley Lee Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Lesley Lee Francis, granddaughter of Robert Frost, brings to life the Frost family's idyllic early years. Through their own words, we enter the daily lives of Robert, known as RF to his family and friends, his wife, Elinor, and their four children, Lesley, Carol, Irma, and Marjorie. The result is a meticulously researched and beautifully written evocation of a fleeting chapter in the life of a literary family.Taught at home by their father and mother, the Frost children received a remarkable education. Reared on poetry, nurtured on the world of the imagination, and instructed in the art of direct observation, the children produced an exceptional body of writing and artwork in the years between 1905 and 1915. Drawing upon previously unexamined journals, notebooks, letters, and the little magazine entitled The Bouquet produced by the Frost children and their friends, Francis shows how the genius of Frost was enriched by his interactions with his children. Francis depicts her grandfather as a generous, devoted, and playful man with a striking ability to communicate with his children and grandchildren. She traces the family's adventures from their farm years in New Hampshire through their nearly three years in England. This enchanting evocation of the Frost family's life together makes more poignant the unforeseen personal tragedies that would befall its members in later years.

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024632
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Prose of Robert Frost written by Robert Frost and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of both published and unpublished prose pieces, including correspondence, articles, talks, readings, and stories.

Author : David Orr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310957X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Not Taken written by David Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of American literature “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice. Praise for The Road Not Taken: “The most satisfying part of Orr’s fresh appraisal of ‘The Road Not Taken’ is the reappraisal it can inspire in longtime Frost readers whose readings have frozen solid. The crossroads between the poet and the man is where Frost leaves his poems for us to discover, turning what seems like a fork in the road into a site of limitless potential.” —The Boston Globe